GRANT Saturday, August 1, 2015- 12:15 National Institute on Aging Multiple dates, see announcement. Limited Competition for the Renewal of the National Cell Repository of Alzheimer's Disease (NCRAD) (U24) ...

GRANT Saturday, August 1, 2015- 12:00 National Institute on Aging The NIA intends to commit up to $5 Million in FY2016 to fund one award. January 11, 2016 Alzheimer's Disease Translational Center for Disease Model Resources (U54) ...

GRANT Saturday, August 1, 2015- 12:00 National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering; National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health; National Eye Institute; National Institute on Aging; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; ...

COMMENT Clinical and epidemiological studies in the elderly have shown that events associated with a low-grade systemic inflammatory response (such as hip surgery and mild urinary infection) can lead to both an acute transient cognitive disturbance (delirium) and ...

COMMENT This study by Zenaro and colleagues unravels an unexpected instrumental role of neutrophils in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Strong evidence is provided for the recruitment of neutrophils into AD brains, both in murine models of ...

COMMENT It is becoming increasingly clear that circulating immune cells play a role in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathophysiology. These cells can play a direct role in affecting the local neuroinflammatory process associated with AD, as well an indirect role via ...

RESEARCH NEWS 2015-08-01 Research News Growing evidence suggests the peripheral immune system plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease. Now, researchers led by Gabriela Constantin at the University of Verona, Italy, turn the spotlight on an overlooked peripheral cell: the neutrophil. ...

JOB 2015-08-01 Employer C2N Diagnostics Contact twest@c2ndiagnostics.com Description C2N Diagnostics is hiring for a research and operations position. The company is looking for a highly-skilled mass spectrometrist with experience in quantitative proteomics and related ...

RESEARCH NEWS 2015-07-31 Research News What goes wrong in the brain of a person with a hexanucleotide expansion in C9ORF72, a protein involved in RNA processing? Quite a bit, according to an analysis published in the July 20 Nature Neuroscience. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic ...